Translating ADHD ADHD and Your Lived Experience: Processing Modalities
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Oct 10, 2022 Discover how processing modalities shape our understanding of ADHD experiences. Shelly and Cam dive into preferences for information processing, like visual and auditory styles. They share a compelling client example involving time management challenges and effective solutions, such as color-coded calendars. The hosts emphasize curiosity about personal modalities and how intuition and emotion can guide learning. Plus, they encourage listeners to explore what energizes them for greater insights into their own strengths.
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Leverage Existing Strengths
- ADHD coaching helps clients discover existing strengths instead of forcing them to fit conventional molds.
- Shelly compares this to shape sorter toys where shapes can fit different holes when reframed visually.
Processing Modalities Broaden Learning
- Processing modalities expand 'learning styles' into how you interact with the world and build knowledge.
- Cam frames modalities as a way to pause and check if your current mode of processing serves you.
Printed Calendars Solved Time Blindness
- Shelly shares a client who struggled to perceive months beyond the current month using Google Calendar.
- The client printed three months of blank calendars and color-coded high-level events, which she still uses.